Gatecliff Rockshelter

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 53 National Register listings published here for Nye County · listed in 1979 · category: Site.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. SE of Austin, Austin, 89045
When was it listed? April 1979
Category. site
Census division. Round Mountain
National Register reference number. 79001464 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Gatecliff Rockshelter in 2003, burning under an acre in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	RIDGE TOP
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	RIDGETOP

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Gatecliff Rockshelter: 9 occurrences, 5 past producers, 2 plants, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Kit Kat No. 13	Lead, Zinc	Occurrence
Masket Peak Prospect	Copper, Zinc, Bismuth	Occurrence
Northumberland Mine	Gold, Silver, Mercury	Plant	1985
Northumberland Mine	Silver, Gold, Barium-Barite, Iron, Arsenic	Producer	1860, 1866, 1988
Water Canyon Mine	Barium-Barite, Semiprecious Gemstone	Past Producer	1979, 1980
Blue Bell Mine	Silver, Gold	Past Producer	1870
Buck Nos. 1-24	Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Orocopter Nos. 1-34	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Last Chance Group	Silver, Gold	Past Producer	1871
Northumberland Mine	Silver, Gold	Past Producer	1866

Every working recorded in Nye County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001464 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nye County	All 53 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.